Environmental Policy

Purpose

Change is committed to continuous improvement in managing the environmental impact of our business operations, including the proper management and monitoring of waste, the reduction of pollution and emissions, compliance with environmental legislation and environmental codes of practice, training for staff and the monitoring of environmental performance. This policy forms part of our Social Value commitment.

We comply with all relevant legislative, regulatory and other environmental requirements in order to act in a socially responsible manner and we will strive to continuously improve our environmental performance. We put our policy into practice by recognising the principles of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; taking advice from Scottish Government and seeking to comply with the international environment code ISO 14001.

Reduce: We purchase products that require less packaging or limit the waste we produce;

Reuse: Use a travel mug or reusable water bottle and avoid single-use bags; and

Recycle: Paper, plastic, glass, magazines, electronics and recycle any other materials which use fewer natural resources and less energy. Our business activities result in: emissions to air and water, the use of energy and water, the generation of waste and transport emissions

Targets and Monitoring

Reduce/Reuse/Recycle

Target

Activity/Improvement

Reduce energy usage

Our Glasgow and Edinburgh

offices both

operate automated

lighting.

Auto screen save (on monitors) after 5 minutes

Minimise paper usage

Improve our current rate of

recycling 90% of all paper

Automatic double side printing to all network

printers

First medium of communication is via PC

rather than paper.

Further reduce unnecessary

business travel

Use of Link video conferencing and audio call

technology to reduce travel for business

meetings.

Free rail passes to our staff travelling between

Glasgow and Edinburgh office to reduce the

use of cars

Minimise the generation of

waste and further promote

the recycling that has been

implemented in both offices

Use of confidential waste bins, distinct from

recycling bins for newspapers/

magazines/cans/general waste/plastic.

Inform and encourage staff at

all levels to act in an

environmentally responsible

manner and provide training

where necessary

100% staff awareness of

company environmental and

sustainability policies

Encourage feedback from staff on

improvements and feed these into the Policy.

Clean desk policy.

Recycle and “Gift” electronic

waste including redundant

PCs, desktops printers

H2 project in 2016 with regards to obsolete IT

equipment across Glasgow and Edinburgh

offices, covering PC and Telephony.

Develop sustainable

procurement policy for office

related supplies with a strong

social value clause

Further reduce Change's

environmental footprint, by

considering our supply

chain's environmental

footprint.

Procurement Policy including supply chain

/social value by 2016

Prevention and Planning

H2 2016 – Change will take

the Zero Waste Challenge

Audit to further reduce and prevent further

waste and improve our environmental impact.

The Environmental Policy and its targets are the responsibility of the Operations Manager. Monitoring of targets is reported to the Leadership Team on an annual basis.